Friends: I would be honored if you’d click on one of the images below and preview (sans cover) the first two chapters of my upcoming book Sewerville: A Southern Gangster Novel. It’s well-established that the two hallmarks of any “gangster” book are familial relationships and criminal activity, and without question those two themes wind throughout every word of this story.

Sewerville is set in that lonely corner where so many of us were born and raised, just beyond the fingertips of prosperous America. It tells the story of a man trying to break free from a stark and violent world of crime and political corruption, from meth dealers and prescription drug abuse. I set out to write something thought-provoking, compassionate, and honest above all, and my hope is that I’ve fashioned a literary novel for a forgotten corner under siege far too long — something that peers into difficult shadows but ultimately offers a message of hope for those troubled souls we all know too well.

Come the Fall of 2012, Sewerville will be available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions, and I look forward to sharing the whole story with you at that time. A few of you have already graciously taken a look at the finished version, and I am forever grateful for your thoughts and criticism. You helped me get to the finish line!

Just a reminder: In advance of Sewerville‘s publication, my (unrelated) short story “The Sweet Smell of Pine Needles” is currently available for e-readers on Amazon.com. Get it here. It’s only $0.99, and all proceeds support Powell County (KY) Cops for Kids, a Christmas charity from Back Home.

If you don’t want to front the dollar, you can read it for free at Crack the Spine, an online literary magazine that I highly recommend. “The Sweet Smell of Pine Needles” leads off Issue 38, but there is plenty of other good work there.

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“That’s infinity. Possibilities. It’s all things, without an end. It’s space, not time or numbers. It’s the point when everything that COULD happen, HAS happened; it’s not about how long it might take for shit to happen, it’s knowing that shit WILL happen. Guaranteed. Everything that ever was, everything that will be, and everything that ever could be. That's infinity. You get what I'm saying?”

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“The human genome consists of twenty-three pairs of chromosomes,” he said. “Hard to imagine. Only forty-six chromosomes total. Billions and billions of people throughout the centuries, all of them created from different combinations of just those forty-six chromosomes, and the genes they contain. Millions of genes. A lot of genes. An incredible amount, really. But it’s a finite number, you know? Only so many. I studied math in school. I’m a smart person, okay? I know what finite means. It means, not infinite.

“A finite number of chromosomes, a finite number of genes. Only so many possible combinations. I haven’t done the math, it’s a hell of a lot, but only so many. And if there’s only so many, that means sooner or later, a combination will repeat. It has to. Only so many. It’s simple math. Think about it: one day, I can’t say when exactly it’s going to happen but one day, the same exact combination of Trump will happen again. There will be another me, an exact copy of me. Another Trump. Not just any Trump, not one like those little asshole sons of mine Eric and Don Junior. No, I’m talking about Trump with a capital T. The Trump. A perfect replica of me, just as I am, right now. Peak Trump, the sequel. Amazing. How does that make you feel?”